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Davis, California – 17 June 2024
1. UC Davis Coffee Center exterior
2. Various roasting beans lesson
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill Ristenpart, Founding Director, UC Davis Coffee Center:
"The Coffee Center at UC Davis is the nation’s first academic facility dedicated to the science and art of coffee. A lot of people here think of making coffee, you just pour hot water over brown powder. How hard is that? What I’d like to convey is it’s actually more difficult to make a good cup of coffee than it is to make a good bottle of wine. And when I say that to my wine colleagues, they get all riled up because they know how difficult it is to make wine. It turns out coffee is even more complicated."
4. Various beans coming out of the roaster
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Shrishti Chezhian, UC Davis Senior:
"I think most people tend to think I’m kind of like a barista. I know how to make a cup of coffee. But they don’t really understand how much science and engineering and how much innovation is needed in the coffee industry."
6. Various espresso brewing lesson
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Laudia Anokye-Bempah, UC Davis Graduate Student:
"I want to use science or chemistry or engineering to be able to control how your roasted beans are going to come out of the roaster. So we could control things like its acidity level with that by doing research and looking at how these parameters change as you roast, we’ll be able to predict what’s going to happen if you roast a certain way using a certain type of green bean."
8. Student tastes espresso after brewing
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9. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill Ristenpart, Founding Director, UC Davis Coffee Center:
"Here’s the size of the wine economy, here’s the size of the coffee economy in the United States. But then when you look at the academic investment, there’s a lot for wine. There’s a whole department here of wine, historically, nothing for coffee. And so that’s what we’re trying to change. We’re trying to elevate coffee and make it a topic of academic research and an academic talent pipeline to help support that industry and help support what’s arguably the world’s most important beverage."
10. Researcher puts coffee beans in temperature controller storage
STORYLINE:
College students often drink coffee to help them study.
Now a new facility for studying coffee on a California college campus has students buzzing.
The Coffee Center at UC Davis is the nation’s first academic facility dedicated to the science and art of coffee.
The 7,000 square-foot center with state-of-the-art technology provides pre- and post-harvest coffee science research, along with coffee bean roasting and espresso brewing rooms.
The center also has a blind tasting booth where researchers can study how consumers respond to various varieties of coffee.
The Coffee Center hopes to add a greenhouse in the future so they can grow coffee beans on site.
Classes taught at the center are currently integrated into the university’s various food science, agricultural economics and engineering programs.
But students and professors at the center hope UC Davis will one day offer a standalone degree in Coffee Science.
Coffee is the latest addition to UC Davis’ drink menu of expertise, which includes programs studying wine, beer and tea.
The multi-million-dollar facility was funded by donations from several top coffee companies in the U.S.
This past school year, more than 2,000 students at UC Davis took a course on coffee.
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